Effects Of Pornography

Pornography and its Pernicious Effects

You hit ‘Enter’ button on your computer waiting patiently for the page to know your required information, nonetheless the next thing you see is a ‘Naked Woman’ or other devices that are related to sexual activities. Although you know you should not be seeing that, but a little curiosity in your mind push you to watch it at least once and you start watching it. It is a common phenomenon of the Internet Pornography, as it is a matter of fact that sex thoughts keep popping in and out in people’s mind, particularly in teenagers’ mind, and awkwardly, they can’t do anything about it.

Lately, there have been a lot of debates about pornography. A populace think pornography is good, other thinks it’s bad and

Eventually, it develops a belief that forcing women to perform any sexual act is nothing illegal. Consequently, women lose their dignity and personal values and feel insecure to work with men; they are considered as a ‘Sexual Object’ to men. There is a common notion and stereotype that women are no more than a tool for men to achieve sexual satisfaction.

In his article “The Pornography Plague,” Kerby Anderson revealed the pervasiveness of pornography and its effects on humans, psychologically and socially. According to Anderson, the continuous exposure to pornography causes men feeling dissatisfied with their partner: their appearance and sexuality (Anderson). Consequently, they desire to have a strong stimulus to make their partner more tempting making women feel to be humiliated every time. More a man watch pornography, harder he finds to achieve sexual satisfaction; every woman becomes sexual objects for

Unlike animals, humans are not bound to follow their primitive instinct; they are capable of controlling their desires and can avoid the acts that are offensive to women. Sex itself is not completely a wrong act; it is the attitude towards it that makes it wrong and degrades the role of women in society. We are not in debate about restricting someone’s sexual freedom, but about humiliating women and having aggressive behaviour towards them.

To give women a safe and respectful life, society should fight for it. David Scott, who is a psychotherapist and works with rape victims, says in his article “How Pornography Changes Attitudes in Pornography: The Human Tragedy,” “half the rapists studied used pornography to arouse themselves immediately prior to seeking out a victim” (Scott). Malamuth, activist, says however not every man (who watches porn) is a rapist, but he can become (Malamuth, 40). As the exposure to pornography increases the oppression and fantasies about rape and has tendency to lead to a real rape (Donnerstein,